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FS#3121 - xorg in testing refuses to change resolution

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by James Rayner (iphitus) - Saturday, 27 August 2005, 23:55 GMT
Last edited by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Wednesday, 04 January 2006, 16:57 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Testing
Status Closed
Assigned To Jan de Groot (JGC)
Architecture not specified
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7 Wombat
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Hey,

I upgraded to testing, and now Xorg refuses to change to any other resolution than 1024x768. This is very irritating as I prefer to play games in 640x480. Instead of changing resolution, it simply shows the game in the corner, or middle of the screen, with big black borders filling up the rest.

Looking at the CVS details for xorg,
http://cvs.archlinux.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/x11/xorg/PKGBUILD

I'm going to try and build it without some of those extra patches and find which one is causing the problem.

My video card is an integrated intel one, "852GM/852GME/855GM/855GME Chipset Graphics Controller"

My xorg.conf is here: https://iphitus.no-ip.org/configs/xorg.conf
It has not changed between the upgrade from -2 to -5.

my xorg log doesnt contain any relevant errors, but is here anyway:
https://iphitus.no-ip.org/configs/Xorg.0.log

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Closed by  Jan de Groot (JGC)
Tuesday, 24 January 2006, 12:08 GMT
Reason for closing:  Works for me
Additional comments about closing:  No response from the original reporter. I've seen it working with prerelease Xorg7 packages on a i830, so I guess this is fine now.
Comment by James Rayner (iphitus) - Sunday, 28 August 2005, 03:45 GMT
Ok, recompiled X, using PKGBUILD taken from CVS that matches the testing package, without the xorg-x11-6.8.2-i945.patch patch. X now changes resolution to 640x480 and xrandr reports more resolutions than just 1024x768, it also reports 800x600 and 640x480, so there's something in this patch that breaks it.

What was the initial reason for including this patch?
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Sunday, 28 August 2005, 09:29 GMT
This patch includes support for i9xx intel chipsets, which are found in many modern laptops.
Comment by James Rayner (iphitus) - Sunday, 28 August 2005, 11:58 GMT
And breaks support for i8xx based chipset laptops to use resolutions other than 1024x768. :)

Comment by James Rayner (iphitus) - Friday, 07 October 2005, 23:08 GMT
New update came in, so I figured I would let go of my self compiled version which didnt have this patch.

Now I can no longer change resolution again to any other than 1024x768.

It's definitely that patch.
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Saturday, 31 December 2005, 12:47 GMT
How is xorg 7 doing this? Tested it a while ago on an intel i830m with 1400x1050 screen, I could get every resolution except 1400x1050 (which is the laptop manufacturers problem, not xorg problem, their VBIOS doesn't support that resolution)

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